Two Things at Once

Like a typical elderly woman or man, I play back the scenes of my life in my mind’s eye - To yesterday and today from the time love began. At successes I smile, and at failures I sigh. It seems like I mostly did what I had to do. I made it atop the mountains I had to climb. To do what was really needed, I made it through. I can do most anything, one step at a time. Yet there are two things I could never do at once, Impossible for me, at once, ever to do, Over all the years, during all twelve months, To look in your eyes and not love you.